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arthurmjones View member profile	Dec 9 2015, 03:05 PM Post #1
New Entry Joined: 9 December 2015 Posts: 2 User: 22,739	Hi all, As part of a research project I'm working on, I need to estimate the number of UK Top 10 hits in 2015 (and 2014 too, if possible!) that feature vocals which are in a language other than English. I thought there might be some people on here who are super knowledgeable about that kind of thing, and may be able to give me a fairly good guess? Thanks - would really appreciate your help! arthur


danG View member profile	Dec 9 2015, 04:39 PM Post #2
🔥🚀🔥 Joined: 30 August 2010 Posts: 74,536 User: 11,746	unless I've forgot something my beat guess would be zero. the last purely foreign song to hit the top 10 in any case was PSY's Gentleman.


Colm View member profile	Dec 9 2015, 04:59 PM Post #3
Yes, it's me. Joined: 4 November 2009 Posts: 19,810 User: 9,885	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_to...singles_in_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_to...singles_in_2015 If you can figure it our from there.


soundseekerz View member profile	Dec 9 2015, 05:43 PM Post #4
BuzzJack Enthusiast Joined: 4 November 2009 Posts: 938 User: 9,878	There is one song that comes to mind: Tchami Ft. Kaleem Taylor - Promesses (Hit #7 in January 2015) The song uses one word that isn't english (promesses) and that word translates to 'Promises' in french. Other than that I don't think there is any other songs that are foreign language enter the top ten in 2015 Here's a list for 2014 (again from the top of my head) Pitbull Ft. Kesha - Timber (Pitbull raps a few words in spanish) Neon Jungle - Braveheart (one of the members counts 1-3 in japanese) Pitbull Ft. GRL - Wild Wild Love (Pitbull raps a few words in spanish) This post has been edited by soundseekerz: Dec 9 2015, 05:57 PM


arthurmjones View member profile	Dec 9 2015, 05:56 PM Post #5
New Entry Joined: 9 December 2015 Posts: 2 User: 22,739	Thanks so much all, really appreciate it (brilliant help so far!).


danG View member profile	Dec 9 2015, 08:24 PM Post #6
🔥🚀🔥 Joined: 30 August 2010 Posts: 74,536 User: 11,746	QUOTE(soundseekerz @ Dec 9 2015, 05:43 PM) There is one song that comes to mind: Tchami Ft. Kaleem Taylor - Promesses (Hit #7 in January 2015) The song uses one word that isn't english (promesses) and that word translates to 'Promises' in french. Other than that I don't think there is any other songs that are foreign language enter the top ten in 2015 'Promesses' sounds exactly like the English word 'Promises' in the context of the song though. And the rest of the lyrics are English. Tchami comes from France which explains the spelling of the title.


Rush View member profile	Dec 10 2015, 02:26 PM Post #7
wayback machine gif rescuer Joined: 3 April 2013 Posts: 3,771 User: 18,564	'The Hills' by The Weeknd (#3 hit this year) has a few lines in Amharic at the end: http://genius.com/5204176